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Go to them
Nobody affected by leprosy should have to explain themselves at three doors to get treatment. We screen in the villages.
Who we are
We began with one refused patient
Little Flower Leprosy Welfare Association exists because a man with a numb hand was turned away from three doors in one afternoon, and someone decided that was not going to be the end of it.
One man, three closed doors
In 1991 a man walked into a clinic in South 24 Parganas with a numb patch on his forearm. He was turned away. He tried two more doors that afternoon and was turned away at both. He went home and told nobody for two years.
By the time he came back, the nerve damage in his hand was permanent — and entirely preventable. That is the gap this association was built to close: not the medicine, which is free, but the distance between a frightened person and the clinic that could have cured them in six months.
Four things we do not bend on
Everything else about the programme has changed since 1991. These have not.
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Papers in the open
Registrations and audited accounts are published on the site, not held behind a request form.
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Treat the household
A diagnosis hits income, schooling and marriage prospects. We treat all of it, not only the skin.
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Publish outcomes
When a case closes we say what happened — including the times it did not go the way we hoped.
The road so far
Thirty-five years, told in the six decisions that changed what we could offer.
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1991
Founded
A single dressing table in a borrowed room, serving eleven patients nobody else would see.
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1998
First detection camp
We stopped waiting for patients to come to us and started walking into the colonies ourselves.
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2006
Reconstructive surgery
A partnership with a district hospital brought claw-hand and foot-drop correction within reach.
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2014
Children’s education
School fees, uniforms and books for the children of leprosy-affected families.
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2021
Livelihood units
Tailoring and small-shop grants turn cured patients back into earners.
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2026
Today
Detection, treatment, surgery, schooling and livelihood — one association, one community.
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Patients treated
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Families supported
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Children in school
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Years of service
Come and see for yourself
Donors, doctors, students and journalists are welcome at the centre without notice. If what is written here is true, a visit will show it faster than any report.